I’m using Obsidian to visualize what I’m linking together. What I’m seeing is a collection of actors and agencies with convergent interests, centralizing power over the last century or so, starting with a few key actors centralizing and devaluing currency and using media for social manipulation. Further, beyond greed and power accumulation and blackmail, I’m seeing a few driving ideologies emerge, including Christian Zionism, neoconservatism, and transhumanism. And again, these people have names and addresses, wallets strained by dropping bombs on kids, only so many lawyers, and all in all, there’s really not many of them.

Currently charting “The Establishment”. I’ve broken it down into 5 branches: Finance, Military-Industrial-Intelligence, Narrative, Political, and Social. The CGI and the Clinton Foundation are masterclasses in influence peddling and prestige laundering, representing key nodes in “The Establishment” Finance, Political, and Social branches. The broad view I’m getting is that The Establishment is a rather small, but very rich and influential, criminal enterprise which has, since the late 1800’s, been consolidating money and power - basically robbed us all blind and built an army to protect the spoils.

It’s the time they were just trying to get food.

It’s the one where kids died

Disability benefits? That’s not real. I think you’re thinking of “bureaucratic dead ends”.

There’s a book about it.

Why would he not act guilty? He was, at the very least, an unwitting asset.

Maxwell’s father worked for various intelligence agencies. This appears to be a blackmail operation by the Mossad and/or the CIA. The former Israeli Prime Minister visited Epstein’s home several times.

I’m working on a physics project, and my simulator suits my purposes and produces reliable results. And I learned a teeny bit about coding building it.

Nah. They’re just avid Black Friday shoppers.

I’ll take one. I’ll sex those cats up

If you can’t say something nice…

Being online would be lot better, and I think we would learn more. Trying to implement this in myself. I wasn’t raised right.

You’re talking about hats, right?

“If you can’t say something nice…”

Shouldn’t be regulated, but that’s my advice for improving discourse and awareness.

“Nobody likes South Park. Everyone likes me. Truth is a popularity contest.”

Here’s something for your toolbox: our society commits idolatry constantly.

Most people’s politics (left-oriented as well - your “scientific rigor” is actually rather sparse and inadequately supported [just look at how often we actually fund follow-up studies]) are virtue signaling. People tend to work backward from what the in-group already assumes. No big deal - it’s just collective problem solving staged in a cannibalistic system. So, to answer your question, seemingly equal measure, though the weights change with social context.

Judging people is bad practice, and it’s none of my business. This post reminds me of The Good Place.

Wyoming. Corrupt, cold, ugly if you’re not rich, and full of morons who do things like thank coal workers for their service.

Mmmmm. I’ll soundly sleep in a bathtub if it’s with a woman I love. Don’t love you? Too hot and uncomfortable. And, sleeping alone, I go back to my roots. Way back. If I feel like I’m hiding in a hole and the dinosaurs about to get fucked, I sleep so good.